{"id":404655,"date":"2010-03-08T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2010-03-08T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:26:38","slug":"new-tangled-bank-review-%e2%80%9cthe-best%e2%80%9d-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404655","title":{"rendered":"New Tangled Bank Review: \u201cThe Best\u201d | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981519474?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0981519474\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2009\/07\/zimmercover220.jpg\" alt=\"zimmercover220.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981519474?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0981519474\"><em>The Tangled Bank<\/em><\/a> just got <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lifescied.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/9\/1\/22\">a great review<\/a> in <em>CBE-Life Sciences Education<\/em>, a journal from the American Society for Cell Biology about teaching science. Scientific journals roll out their reviews a lot more slowly than newspapers and magazines, but in this case, it was worth the wait. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.umn.edu\/bioprog\/staff\/moore\/\">Randy Moore<\/a>, a University of Minnesota biologist who has done great work in defense of the teaching of evolution, leaves me trying to decide which line I want to drop, blurb-like, onto my web site&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>&#8220;The best textbook I&#8217;ve seen for a nonmajors<sup> <\/sup>introductory biology course about evolution.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">&#8230;or maybe&#8211;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>The Tangled Bank<\/em> is well-produced, up-to-date,<sup> <\/sup>readable, and exceptionally well illustrated. At no point does<sup> <\/sup>it falter.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">or maybe the last line of the review&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Read <em>The Tangled Bank.<\/em> You won&#8217;t be disappointed.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the embarrassment of riches.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MPMt_-rhqYTMPWhbKtWNpOeSl9k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MPMt_-rhqYTMPWhbKtWNpOeSl9k\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MPMt_-rhqYTMPWhbKtWNpOeSl9k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MPMt_-rhqYTMPWhbKtWNpOeSl9k\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/__MZ35ftYZw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/HyGjiAav02c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tangled Bank just got a great review in CBE-Life Sciences Education, a journal from the American Society for Cell Biology about teaching science. Scientific journals roll out their reviews a lot more slowly than newspapers and magazines, but in this case, it was worth the wait. Randy Moore, a University of Minnesota biologist who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}